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OILF speaks to:

Linear thinkers 
who absorb things one-at-a-time
Uni-taskers 
who finish one task before the next
Structured learners 
who need logical organization
Low band-width processors 
overwhelmed by multi-media
One-on-one socializers 
who shy away from large groups
Independent self-starters 
who don't work well in groups
Introverts 
who prefer reading to partying
"Male"-brained males & females
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Math buffs, linguists, engineers,
programmers, scientists & skeptics

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Katharine Beals
Katharine Beals, PhD, is the author of "Raising a Left-Brain Child in a Right-Brain World: Strategies for Helping Bright, Quirky, Socially Awkward Children to Thrive at Home and at School" (Shambhala/Trumpeter) Katharine is an educator and the mother of three left-brain children. She has taught math, computer science, social studies, expository writing, linguistics, and English as a second language to students of all ages, both in the U.S. and overseas. She is also the architect of the GrammarTrainer, a linguistic software program for language impaired children. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and an adjunct professor at the Drexel University School of Education.
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Left-brain, right-brain, and brain hemispheres

This site uses left-brain and right-brain not as physiological terms for the actual left and right hemispheres of the brain, but as they are employed in the everyday vernacular.  They appear here in the same spirit in which people use type A and type B (themselves the relics of a debunked theory about blood type and character type): an informal shorthand for certain bundles of personality traits.

Left-brain: logical, systematic, analytical, one-at-a-time, abstract, verbal, introverted.

Right-brain: emotional, incidental, intuitive, holistic, relational, nonverbal, social.

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